Thirty-eight years ago this week, NASA announced the names of 35 new astronaut candidates, including the first group of women to officially belong to a new astronaut class. The picture above shows ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Men have floated out the hatch on all 420 spacewalks conducted over the past half-century. That changed Friday with spacewalk No. 421. NASA astronauts Christina Koch ...

NASA provided a livestream of the May 1 spacewalk on its streaming service, NASA+. Earlier this year, Suni Williams made additional history for women astronauts when she set a record Jan. 30 ...

But the journalist started wondering about the other women who had trained alongside Ride in NASA’s first coed astronaut class. Those women — all formidable and accomplished in their own right ...

Two NASA astronauts have completed a spacewalk, stepping outside the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday to take part in U.S. Spacewalk 93. It is the first all-female spacewalk since ...

NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir have made history with the first all-female spacewalk. The spacewalk, which started early Friday, is Meir’s first and Koch’s fourth. NASA ...

Such responses, argues Grush, were typical of NASA’s reluctance to consider women for their astronaut training scheme. Indeed, the very idea that women could ever become astronauts was seen not ...

NASA changed forever in 1978 with the addition of new kinds of astronauts. That year, NASA accepted women and people of color into the astronaut corps for the first time, and the new book "The Six ...

Eleven astronauts joined NASA last week, receiving their silver pin at the first public graduation ceremony in the agency's history. Five of those astronauts are women, one of whom may go to ...

In mid-March 2019, astronauts Anne McClain and Christina Koch were readying themselves to make space history. Later that month, the pair were scheduled to conduct the first ever all-female ...

As NASA explained it, one was bound to happen eventually because of the increasing number of female astronauts. But news of the milestone attracted far greater interest than spacewalks normally do ...